Conway ConnectED: PD Palooza 2024

The objective of this session is to generate awareness and interest for a student mentorship group we started called D3 (Discipline, Determination, Dreams). The group is designed to help middle school students develop a sense of community and belonging while being challenged in their integrity, accountability, respect, leadership and service to better and improve not only their school but their community. Through our program, we have dramatically increased student GPA and greatly decreased the number of office referrals and discipline (ISS/OSS) received by students. We are completing our fourth year. We started with 15 students and have grown to over 150 students. Not only do we want to bring awareness and generate interest in our group, we also want to give participants a blueprint on how to start and run their own mentorship program on their campuses.